Dartmoor is one of the last places in England where you can still pitch a tent away from a campsite and sleep properly wild. Rolling moorland, granite tors, hidden river valleys and skies dark enough to see the Milky Way on a clear night. It's a genuinely special place to spend a night outdoors, and one of the few in the country where it's part of the landscape's history rather than a novelty.
Our guided wild camps take you deep onto the moor with someone who knows it properly: where to find shelter from the wind, which river crossings to trust, and how to read the weather before it changes on you (and on Dartmoor, it will). You'll carry and pitch your own kit, cook over a stove under open sky, and wake up somewhere you'd never find on your own.
Dartmoor's wild camping rights are protected for lightweight, backpacker-style camping where you carry in and pack out your own gear, and we build every trip around that same principle. No car camping, no glamping, just proper self-sufficient nights on the moor with an experienced guide alongside you.
Whether you've wild camped before or you're doing it for the first time, our guides will make sure you're properly kitted out, properly briefed, and properly looked after. This is Dartmoor as it's meant to be experienced.
Dartmoor is the only place in England where wild camping is protected in law, and it has been part of life on the moor for generations. The Supreme Court confirmed in 2025 that this right covers lightweight, backpacker style camping, where you carry your own kit in and out and leave no trace behind. That is exactly the kind of camping we do here. No trailers, no car camping, just a tent, a stove and the moor.
The landscape rewards people who go properly into it. High Willhays, at 621 metres, is Dartmoor's highest point and one of the few spots in southern England that genuinely earns the word mountain. Nearby, Yes Tor and the West Okement valley give you granite, gorse and a river you'll be glad to camp beside. Further into the interior, Fur Tor sits at the heart of the moor and is often described as its most remote point, a proper test of navigation and one of the best places on Dartmoor to spend a night with nobody else around. Cut Hill, Cranmere Pool and the Belstone ridge all sit in similar territory: wild, boggy in places, and a world away from the honeypot spots like Haytor.
Weather on Dartmoor changes fast and our guides plan around it rather than hoping for the best. Cloud can drop onto the tors within the hour, rain turns dry ground to bog, and wind on an exposed ridge is a different proposition to wind in a valley. Good route choice on the day matters as much as the route on the map, and that is where an experienced guide earns their keep, picking shelter, water and a pitch that suits the conditions rather than a fixed plan.
Safety on the moor comes down to a few unglamorous basics done properly. Camp well clear of roads and dwellings, away from flood plains and boggy ground, and always pitch somewhere you would be happy to be found if the weather turned. Water is everywhere on Dartmoor but should always be treated before drinking. Parts of the north moor sit within military firing ranges, so route planning around the firing times is part of the job, and it is one less thing you need to think about when a guide is doing it for you.
Spring and fine autumn days bring the best combination of long light and firm underfoot conditions, while summer brings warmth but also midges and busier honeypot areas. Winter Dartmoor is a different, quieter place, and a genuinely special one for those with the right kit and experience. Whatever the season, this is real wild camping rather than a soft version of it, and that is precisely why people come back to Dartmoor again and again.
There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over the moor once the light goes, broken only by wind on the tor and the odd distant call of a pony. It is worth the walk in, every time.